Bobo & Lumen's Tokyo Travel Guide

A Kids' Adventure Handbook to Japan's Capital: 22 Real Places, On-Location Missions, Games and a Travel Journal

TOKYO, EXPLAINED BY TWO CATS WHO ACTUALLY READ THE SIGNS. Bobo & Lumen's Tokyo Travel Guide is a hybrid book: half real guide to Japan's capital, half activity companion to carry in a backpack. Lumen, the calm strategist in the red cape, brings the maps and the history. Bobo, the orange wildcard in the teal mask, brings the questions nobody else thinks to ask. Between them, young travellers get a Tokyo that makes sense. WHAT'S INSIDE Meet the city first. Where Tokyo sits on the map, how the green Yamanote loop stitches 29 stations into one 34-kilometre circle, what the 23 special wards actually are, and how a fishing village called Edo grew into a capital and changed its name. Then ten full landmark adventures. Senso-ji, the temple founded in 628 after two fishermen pulled a statue from the Sumida River. Tokyo Skytree, 634 metres tall because 6-3-4 sounds like "Musashi," the region's old name. The Imperial Palace East Gardens, built on the stone bones of Edo Castle. Shibuya Scramble Crossing and the statue of Hachiko. Meiji Jingu, whose ancient-looking forest was planted by hand by 110,000 volunteers in 1920. Ueno Park and Japan's first zoo. Tokyo Tower, calculated by hand in 1958. Shinjuku, the busiest railway station on Earth. Ryogoku, home of sumo. Toyosu Market and its five a.m. tuna auction. Then twelve more real places to track down, from the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka to teamLab Planets in Toyosu. Then food, festivals, makers and stories - and finally the games: a destination quiz, an on-location city spotter, a matching game, field-notebook pages, a travel time capsule and an explorer certificate. WHY FAMILIES LIKE IT It respects capable readers. No baby talk, no date-dumping, no filler. Every fact comes from official temple, shrine, museum, tourism-board and government sources, and every information page leads somewhere: something to look for, choose, count or write. Children write only where a page invites it, so the guide survives repeated reading and the journal pages stay meaningful. Useful before the flight for planning and anticipation. Genuinely useful on location as a mission list. Worth keeping afterwards as a filled-in record of a real trip. Full colour throughout, 48 pages, illustrated on every page.

Pages

48

Size

6 × 9 in

Format

Premium color, fully illustrated paperback